Mic reports Reese Franyo, a 12-year-old girl from South Carolina, was pulled out of class and told her skirt looked like it was better fit for a club than a classroom. The particularly outrageous part, though, is that the skirt in question fell within the school’s dress code, meaning Reese’s teacher shamed her basically just because.

Reese’s mom Suzie Webster brought this whole debacle to light when she put it on Facebook in a now viral post showing the outfit Reese got in trouble for. The day her teacher told her she looked like she was going to a club, not to middle school, Reese was wearing a slightly big crew-neck t-shirt and an a-line denim skirt that hits her mid thigh. She paired the skirt and t-shirt with a cure pair of brown boots.

“I found out that Reese was called out in the hallway surrounded by other kids and told to go to the office because her skirt was too short and needed to be replaced. Also, the teacher told her she looked like she should ‘be clubbing.’ What? I don't know too many women who wear a boxy t-shirt and an a-line preppy denim skirt to go clubbing. Perhaps it was her scandalous ankle boots. I told the Principal during my rant, that I felt that it was madly inappropriate for my daughter to be humiliated in front of other students and if there was concern about her meeting the dress code there was a more tactful way vs. a public shaming.”

It’s absolutely not OK that Reese was called out in front of her classmates, but what’s even worse is what her school is implying. Reese is 12 and she showed up to school ready to learn in an outfit that made her feel good. Reese’s learning was interrupted because we have this strange idea in our society that women’s bodies are inherently sexual, and we need to "protect" young boys from the images of someone wearing a skirt. Instead of promoting confidence and facilitating learning for girls, these school officials seem to great length to make sure they’re fully covered up because if they aren’t someone might be distracted by their bodies.

In reality, we need to protect women and girls from being shamed by educating everyone, including young men and boys, that it's not someone's body or clothing that is inappropriate but the slut shaming and harassment. Furthermore, it's actually insulting to men and boys to imply that they are incapable of controlling themselves if they are presented with the female form.

“While Reese was changing, her Principal, Mr. Cumberback started to explain to me that it was necessary to closely monitor the girls attire because boys at this age get very distracted by the girls and their appearance,” Reese’s mom wrote. “So in order to control this, they needed to make sure the skirts were long enough etc. WTH?! This is the exact problem with society today. SO MY DAUGHTER WAS EMBARRASSED, HUMILIATED IN FRONT OF HER PEERS AND MADE TO FEEL LIKE A BAD GIRL BECAUSE BOYS CAN'T CONTROL THEIR DIRTY THOUGHTS! I have to say he didn't get to finish his entire argument because I asked him to please stop talking and told him the above.”

Again, girls and women don't exist to be sexualized without their consent. In this case, Reese was at school to learn, but her teachers’ comments and the spectacle that was made of her definitely prevented that from happening.

By the way, of this takes into account that the skirt was actually within the school’s dress code.

Sexist dress codes are definitely nothing new, but they are definitely something we are very tired of. Girls want to learn and we should let them.